The YM Oceanic Culture & Art Museum – Don’t Bother

As a service to readers who may find themselves in the Taiwanese port city of Keelung with time to kill and kids to amuse I’m going to tell you not to bother with the dreadful YM Oceanic Culture & Art Museum (in which there is no art). We visited on a rather rainy day but quite honestly we’d have been better off just getting wet. This has to be the worst maritime themed museum I’ve ever been to and just about the worst any type of museum too. The exhibits are boring, the illustrations invariably inaccurate and most of the display is a turgid history of the Yangming Marine Transport Group!!

Additionally there’s some rather weak exhibits on global warming that aren’t very instructive (the kids knew more about it already and they’re under 10!) and a 3-D cinema will show you a totally stupid cartoon on earthquakes and tectonic plate movements with some dubious science, crap 3-D visuals and of very little educational merit. The only remotely fun bit was a mocked up long boat of some description (Viking?) where you get to dress up like a Roman!!

Avoid at all costs